Discoveries from China World Cinema

Lao San is a young veteran high in Kungfu power but low in intelligence. After landing on a job as a body guard for a wealthy antique collector, Lao San finds out his boss's plot to rob the National Art Museum.

The film tells the story of the first award ceremony of 1,052 meritorious generals of the Chinese People's Liberation Army On September 23, 1955, the 22nd Meeting of the Standing Committee of the First National People's Congress decided to award Zhu De and other 10 senior generals of the Chinese People's Liberation Army with the rank of Marshal of the People's Republic of China, and they were awarded by order of the then President Mao Zedong. On September 27, 1955, the Central Military Commission issued a special telegram and announced the order to award Su Yu and other 1,038 senior officers of the Chinese People's Liberation Army with the rank of general through the general ceremony ceremony held by the State Council. These include 10 generals, 55 generals, 175 lieutenant generals, and 798 major generals

In 1934, agents of the Kuomintang government round up suspects and torture them to find out which one is an undercover communist spy.

A Mo Lai Tau (Nonsense Comedy) directed by Hong Kong New Wave filmmaker Dennis Yu.

Joey Yung's tenth concert at the Hong Kong Coliseum, named after the same-titled song. This concert held the record of the most number of shows in all Joey's concerts in Hong Kong.

Military instructor Zhang Zhen becomes embroiled in a murder case, forcing him to go on the run. With help, he finds a survivor and investigates, uncovering connections to human trafficking and a military group while seeking the truth.

A middle-class family's fate becomes intertwined with their only son's enigmatic new friend in post one-child policy China, putting unspoken secrets, unmet expectations, and untended emotions under the microscope.

Studying in Hong Kong but living in Shenzhen, Peipei has spent 16 years in her life travelling between these two cities. To realize the dream of seeing snow in Japan with her bestie, Peipei joins a smuggling gang and uses her student identity to smuggle iPhones from Hong Kong to Mainland. Her family life and friendships begin to fall apart. The daily life of Peipei starts to get out of control.

A college couple has their relationship tested by the obstacles they encounter realizing their artistic dreams.

Forty-year-old Wenyao still lives in a rental room with his wife Xiaoyu, and keeps selling his book every day for rent and looks useless. On a whim, he plans to direct and shoot a video according to his book. He invites Meifeng to take a role in his video, but she edits and leaks auction fragment to the network. It makes Wenyao famous for the "hidden rule", and wins the attraction of investors. Wenyao hires amateur actors Yanzi and Mao, prepares for the opening camera. Xiaoyu learns about the "hidden rule" event and makes a scene. What can Wenyao do now?

After her birthday party, ad executive Michelle finds herself caught between cheerful Tony, dreamy Bill, youthful Jeb, and rich Tiger. Overwhelmed with stress, another complication quietly forms in her life.

When the women of her time had their feet bound to please men, Qiu Jin was already questioning the sexual inequality of feudal traditions. Free-spirited and well-educated, she grew up practicing martial arts and was as well versed in poetry as she was in sword-fighting. When this rebellious girl moved to Beijing with her husband, she witnessed how her country was raided and ravaged by foreign powers. With the encouragement of her neighbor Wu Zhiying, the wife of righteous magistrate Li Zhongyue, Qiu Jin left her family behind to pursue study in Japan. There, she met some like-minded schoolmates who shared her ideals, including revolutionary leader Xu Xilin, and secretly joined his anti-Qing cause. After returning to China, Qiu Jin participated in the uprisings staged by Xu Xilin, leading a small group of hot-blooded students against the armed forces of the corrupt Qing government...

In order to claim the arrears, two laid-off workers took temporary care of Qianqian, the daughter of the debtor, but they didn't expect Qianqian to have an accident.

A mortal called Fu Yan accidentally fell into a space rift and find himself in the demon realm. He embarks on a journey, cultivating, refining Dan, and fighting demons.

Josh and Ling were expecting a boring vacation visiting each of their parents at an archaeological dig in China. But the new friends soon discover they're right in the middle of an adventure when they find a Chinese Golden Dragon.

Zhang Sanye, the descendant of Guanshan Taibao, went to Longtang Township with his apprentice at the invitation of his junior brother He Laodao. In order to avoid the loss of life in Ezhou, Zhang Sanye and others are determined to find the legendary tomb of Magu before the warlord Luo Manzi. A group of people went through all kinds of dangers and finally found the tomb, but Mr. Zhang discovered that the tomb robbery was actually a trap carefully arranged by He Laodao and Luo Manzi. There was a bigger conspiracy behind the treasure in Magu's tomb...

Sun Wukong appeared as a fighting Buddha. What kind of peak duel will there be between a superhero who lives in modern times and confronts alien civilizations with the scorching sun civilization and Dilena?

A detective and a crime division officer uncover the criminal activities of a drug lord.

When Zhao Xiaoyi passes the entrance exam to enroll as an art student, it’s more to her than a chance to pursue her creative dreams. After years of close supervision at home, it also means freedom and independence. Away at school at last, a lonelier Zhao finds there may be more to miss at home than there is to discover on her own. Meanwhile, things are not all well with her mom, as career troubles and domestic problems collide to overwhelm her.

When an average and unexciting IT worker meets the new girl in the office, the beautiful Zhao Ximan, he finds a reason to change his life. But Ximan hides a secret, she suffers from Global Transient Amnesia, meaning she won't remember anything tomorrow. How can he win her over?

The story starts from pile murder, murderer exactly ten years ago, a woman was shot dead by police. A decade ago, it has not found an important clue surfaced, what old things associated with the murder a decade ago after a decade of existence in the end? All this seems to be back to square one again. Liu Ye plays Justin was forced to intervene series of investigations, throws a period spanning 10 years of disputes, he played with Chiu ??? what will happen to the story, the same two men who have lost a loved one, the final showdown, behind, relating to a shocking secret, life and death, love and hate, good and evil, black and white, good and evil, truth and lies a major reversal in

The ancient god of war, Chen Nan, who led the gods and demons in the battle against the Heavens, awakens from his tomb at the top of the snowy mountains after a ten-thousand-year slumber. With his divine powers and memories closed, and after a fierce fight with the guardians of the tomb, he inadvertently enters the land of Chu by mistake.

A hunter violates the ancient Mongolian hunting code and must pay his penance.

Crossed Lines (Chinese: 命运呼叫转移; pinyin: Mìngyùn Hūjiào Zhuǎnyí) is a Chinese comedy anthology film.

A romantic tale revolving around two radio disc jockeys and the world they inhabit. They find the audience they reach reflects their love and heartbreak, forcing them to deal with issues larger than just their own lives.

You know him from Drunken Master story - legendary Beggar So. A martial arts scholar, who is accidentally injured and loses his memory when he oppresses the Tianmen sect that sells big cigarettes. When he was a beggar, he was taken in by Jin Zhi and Little Fruit's mother and daughter. Because the opium ointment leaked, Little Fruit was captured by the Heaven's Gate Sect, and Su begged to save the little girl who took care of her, Little Fruit, and destroyed the Heaven's Gate Sect's The story of the conspiracy and the eventual eradication of the Heaven's Gate religion with the government.

The film tells the story of Lu You, a once highly regarded Chinese female footballer who retired at the height of her career due to an injury. At this low point in her life, she came to a poor and backward mountain village in Pakistan to help a group of young girls pursue their football dream.

In the dynamic and challenging landscape of Northeast China, estranged father and son Lu Jiaquan and Lu Tianyi clash over their conflicting business philosophies. After Jiaquan leaves home to prove himself and becomes a bathhouse manager, he finds his ambition backfiring. With his father's help, he confronts his challenges, leading to a touching reconciliation between them.

The Monkey King: The Legend Begins is the re-imagined version by Hollywood of the film The Monkey King: Havoc in Heavens Palace, the origin and birthplace of The Monkey King Story.

Due to a fateful occurrence, Yue Wuyi leaves home. He meets revered master Xie Yi, who imparts to him the magical arts of Yan, and thus begins his journey of cultivation. Along the way he meets Wen Renyu, Xia Yize, Ah Ruan and company. They discover the schemes and conspiracies of Shen Ye, the grand priest of Liu Yue City. The group of adventurers undergoes dangers to defeat Shen Ye, and prevent a disaster from befalling the world.

This is love stories of different generations; the school girl in love with a gamer, a taxi driver who harbours a secret love for the past twenty years, the love between a young woman and a celebrity, and also the fading love between a married couple where the husband is having an affair.

In the early 1990s, a small-town checkpoint officer, Yao Sichen, becomes entangled in a missing truck case due to a canceled fine. To clear up the case, he spares no effort in investigating in Maniao River Village, dealing with the truck driver Yang Zhaowei and his daughter Yang Ge, village chief Zhang Changchun, security chief Chen Yongjin, Yan Xue, and the serial killer Ge Wenyong. In the end, Yao ultimately clears up a string of murder-for-profit crimes.

Two friends stumble their way through marriage. Feeling exhausted, they start to question if getting married must be the ultimate goal of relationships.

The film is based on true events, about the imminent execution of the death row inmates Zheng Ligun in the escort on the way to a sudden earthquake, the guardhouse collapsed into rubble, escaped from death, Zheng Ligun seems to have gained a sudden "freedom", but in fact, has been plunged into another purgatory...... Meanwhile, police officer Wei Chixiao decides to temporarily organize a "different" rescue team. In the face of a natural disaster, with only 24 hours left to live, will the death row inmate escape or save others? What should the police officers in charge of guarding him do? Everyone stands at the fork in the road of destiny......

Police Captain Zheng Yi delves into a stock recommendation fraud case, only to discover a web of four interlinked scams. As the investigation unfolds, two key suspects—Dr. Han Dongchuan and wealthy tycoon Luo Fu—begin to expose each other’s crimes. With each revelation, the truth becomes more convoluted.

Follows a big star who brings a film crew to her remote hometown for a shoot, and while the production is afflicted by disagreements between the crew, a bored local restaurant owner finds excitement to be the stand-in for the star.

If exchanging lives would exchange family members, would you still be willing? After Zhong Da and Jin Hao went on a blind date, he accidentally changed bodies with Lu Xiaogu, a boy who had a crush on Jin Hao, and exchanged family members by mistake, opening a story that is hilarious and tearful.

This is a tough-guy drama focusing on the drug trade. It tells the thrilling story of a father who has retired for more than 20 years and returns to the arena in order to find his lost relatives. In the movie, Ren Dahua and Zhang Lanxin's sincere and in-depth performances interpret the touching theme of the film "giving everything for the family"

Bei Xiaobei is a self-abased writer because he feels himself too fat. Because of his poor appearance, he often ran into a wall in real life. Later, he unwittingly finds a long dusty family tree and accidentally crosses through the ages to meet with his ancestors.

Sitian, a Chinese American conductor, returns to China to give a concert and to find her three siblings again, after having been separated from them for years after the death of their parents.

Gu Yuxuan and Han Shuyan almost had a fated encounter when they were children. After they grew up, the two met again as they are destined to fall in love. After experiencing the happiness and sweetness of love, they had to face the test of fate together. Can the miracle of love keep them together?

Funny scramble of an esoteric book of cooking between a guy without feeling, a tough girl, a master out of date, a dark-minded rich man, a emotion-manipulating woman and a OCD-suffering samurai.

An exhausted woman rekindles the spirit of a man, whose heart has grown cold and desolate. Together, they embark on a journey of both physical and emotional liberation, bound tightly by desire and passion, navigating through an intense exploration of life and death.

Hong Kong antique dealer Ming Shu commissions Hu Ba Yi, Wang Kai Xuan and Shirley Yang to look for the glacier corpse within the demonic kingdom from the legends of King Gesar.

Do you still remember the person you liked when you were 17? Xu You, a southern girl with excellent grades, transferred to Linshi, accidentally became a deskmate with Xie Ci, a "school bully", and the two gradually entered each other's hearts in the midst of laughter and bickering, but faced with the trick of fate. Years later, the two return to the place where the story began, only to realize that the joy of youth is like apple-flavored lollipops, around and around or the first sweetest ......

Story based on the legendary mansion at No. 81 on Chaoyangmennei Street in Beijing, which local legend says is haunted by the ghost of a Kuomintang official's wife, who committed suicide in the home around the time of the Cultural Revolution. The film follows Xu Ruoqing a woman whose presence in the notorious mansion draws up the spirits that have taken residence there.

The first half of this film portrays the experiences of a young northern mainland Chinese woman (Fan) temporarily working as a sex worker in Hong Kong. After her 3-month visa expires, the second half of the film focuses on Yan's return to her family and her ex-fiancé in Northeast China and the ways that she invests the money that she has earned.

A story of perseverance, this action film follows a young assassin as he overcomes several hardships during the Warring States period.

The ghost of a woman who died after an avalanche returns to live with her husband, who has not been able to overcome her death.

Once celebrated as a prodigy, Yang Qianhuan, the third disciple of the Imperial Observatory, is cast into obscurity with the rise of Xu Qi'an. Despite being told that his fate is sealed, he refuses to surrender, determined to defy destiny and reclaim his place through his own strength.

A pig farmer, a busboy, a salon owner, an expat architect and a jaded rich girl cross paths as thousands of dead pigs float down the Yangtze River toward Shanghai.

They fell in love; Chen Qiushui was 20. Wang Biyun was 18. When Qiushui fled Taiwan after the 228 Massacre, Biyun gave him a gold engagement ring and they promised to meet again. Qiushui served as an army doctor during the Korean War, where he met Wang Jindi, a nurse from Shanghai who fell in love with him instantly. Years had gone by, Qiushui married Jindi and settled in Tibet. While in Taiwan, Biyun buried Qiushui's mother and continued to pray for his return. Flashback to modern time, Biyun is living in New York. Her niece played by Isabella Leong, a writer, has travelled to Tibet to find out what happened to Qiushui. Through the pictures she sends back via internet, Biyun finally gets to see the familiar face once again.

A year ago, Yan Chixia, alongside her family, killed the Fox Demon. Her younger sister Jiang Xue, however, was turned into a demon l, and under the intervention of the sect, becomes even more involved with Yan. The deep misunderstanding brought on by Chixia causes that he has become her mortal enemy. The two are separated by two generations of enmity against the monsters. Yan Chixia becomes one who exterminates demons, while Jiang Xue quietly transforms into a nine-tailed fox known as Shen Si Rou.

Ye Rutang, a single-living woman in her late fifties, struggles to maintain a dignified life amid the dangers of Shanghai.